Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-05

he went to Canada 70 mail and receive let
| tsrs, but did not remain long IN that haven
/ Of defaulters- 81 came in and gave myself
up of my own free viii, % he said 81 want
ed 70 see my little children. I got tired Of
/ leading the life Of q fugitive, and would
/ rather be IN h than go through all / have
/ had to endure. am here now, and expect
70 remain for some time. have come
/ back to fight my cases and make the best Of
them. HOllingsWorth is charged with the
/ defalcation Of nearly $50, COO of the county e
FUND. The rumOr - current that Holdings
worth Will make q clean breast at the trial,
I and viii implicate in his official pscuiations
some very prominent citizens He IS az
dumb as al oyster on that point, but there
/ is a twinkle in his eye that means mischief
for somebody.
Simon Cameron, now in his eighty-ninth
year, left New York for Bermuda, with a
party Of congenial spirits.
Two bills introduced in the senate of Wis
eOnsin are intended to abolish the stockades
in the lumber and mining camps.
Jesse Spalding, president Of the Sturgeon
Bay Canal company, intimates that the gov
ernment can have the cut for $4,000.
The Illinois labor convention at Spring
field passed q resolution opposing the estab-
hshment Of military post near Chicago.
Lieutenant Sohwatka reports Yellowstone
park buried IN from six to eight feet Of
snow, but describes the winter effects as
splendid.
The Michigan senate passed the house
joint resolution 70 submit a prOhibitory
amendment at the spring election. The
Ohio house rejected the township lOcal-op-
ton bill.
A west bound Missouri Pacific freight
train Of fourteen cars and cabOOse ran into
a switch engine at Rock Creek, east of In
dependence, No The engine and cars we're
piled up in a heap, blocking the track for
Sc Veral hours. No one hurt.
Rev. George ID. TowRe resigned from an
Episcopal pnlpit IN Baltimore last EOvem-
Der, remained q few days IN a Catholic
seminary, wrote some articles for a New
York newspaper, and now informs the stand
ing COMMITTEES OF the diocese Of Easton tina {
he Is conscious OF his mistake.
The steel cruiser Atlanta will next week
go on a final trial trip, in the hope of show
ing marked increase in her horse power,
her speed being already above the contract
line. Two Of her guns are tWenty-fOur feet
IN length, carry an explosive 5O0-pound shot
for hye miles, and cost S15 for powder at
each discharge.
Old residents Of South Bend, Indiana. will
doubtless recall the mysterious disappear
ance Of Isaac Kahn, cattie-deaier, fifteen
years ago. A citizen was tried for his muir
ner and acquitted. His supposed widow mar
ried Nathan Goldsmith, a merchant at
Aurora, Illinois. Her brother IN New Mexi-
co writes that Isaac is alive and Is about TO
explain his absence.
The United States geological survey has
issued a report Of the mineral resources of
the United States for 1886. The total min
erai products is valued at $40, OOO, 600, an
increase Of Sl5,OOO,OOO over 1884.
Acting Secretary Fairehild declared final
dividend of 5 per cent. in favor of the credi-
tors Of the worlds exposition at New Or
leans, payable out Of the appropriation of
s=t-fE hvr oil Of he
position.
The st. Louis GlObe-DenOcrdt says ar
engagements for the consolidation of the st.
Louis j. Kansas City short line, and the
Missouri Central railroads have been CON-
pleted, the deal closed and the papers signed.
meeting Of the stockholders Will be held
Tuesday next, and John ID. Perry, Of st.
Louis will be elected president; George w.
Parker. of the Cairo short line, vice presi-
dent. 1t Is now certain that the cOnsOlida-
ton was effected IN the interest Of the Bee
lines and that the new road is to be the Lat
ter's western extension.
A Washington special says: Ex-Congress-
man Page, OF California, was passing
through the bar of Welcker's hotel when a
son of Senator Fair, of Nevada, called out
to him to stop and have drink. Page de-
cliued, and was passing on, when he saw
young FAIR, who was under the influence OF
/ liquor, had pulled a revolver. Page had nc
/ idea that Fair really intended anything
! serious, but caught him quickly by the hand
| that held the revolver and threw it Up. The
/ pistol was Immediately discharged, the ball
| lodging IN the ceiling. Page took the re-
volYer away from the young man and theI
walked home.
Five Of the eight men who robbed the
| Texas Pacific passenger train, near Cor.
| dOns Texas, are under arrest. John Oxford
Sam Beal and Ike CLARK were caught neal
| Gordon, and we're taken to Dallas. Tit
/ fourth desperate was arrested at Cisco. ID
/ B. ROark, city assessor Of Cisco, knows Sut
/ tiers family well. His uncle is said to be
/ prominent banker Of Kansas. The fourth
man arrested for completely in the rObber!
! is ohm Houston. He denies that he had am
hand in the work. 1t If doubtful whether
/ strong case can be made out against all o.
the i've men in custody.
Secretary Manning's after ton was calleS
/ to the published statements that ne expects
shortly to resign from the treasury to becOm
the head of a new bank in New York, and Al
expression vas invited from him upon tn
subject because of it's great public interest
The secretary replied that he had not beer
offered the presidency of any such bank
that according to his experience it Is Gus
tOmary to organize bank and elect boar
of directors before selecting the other OH
GERS, and so far as he knew this had not beel
done. Mr.. Manning's remarks indicates
that he did not wish to appear as expressing
IN advance an opinion Upon COntingenc
which had not arisen. The fact that seVera
of Mr.. Manning's friends are among tn
organizers of the proposed new bank, an
that large number OF heavy subscription
Tor the stock have been made contingen
upon Mr.E Manning becoming president of II
gives color to the rumOrs.